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Donna Mathiowetz: What Have You Done Since I Left? – Part 2
Take 25 minutes over lunch to nourish your soul!
See Donna’s bio and listen to Part 1 of Nada and Donna’s Dare Ah New Belief conversation here.
In Part 2, Nada and Donna discuss:
- How Donna and her husband came to adopt Oleg, who was ill with cancer, while they were still grieving the loss of their 16 year-old son.
- How a teenage boy from the other side of the world made such a mark on Donna and Dick’s lives.
- Expressing to Oleg that his cancer had metastasized, and the prognosis was poor.
- How to truthfully answer grieving people’s questions about healing.
Key takeaways:
- There are no right or wrong ways to grieve. Just allow yourself the space to grieve.
- Grief fog can cloud a grieving person’s judgment, so it is best to not make any major decisions for at least a year.
- Time does not stop the laughter that comes with beautiful memories.
- Twenty eight years later, one can feel like they are still grieving.
- We fall short in society in offering ways to hold people in grief.
Be sure to listen to What Have You Done Since I Left? – Part 1 as well!
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